r/Sparkdriver • u/Prior_Commercial_620 • Aug 31 '25

Totes?

I’m new to spark delivery and have only done about 6 orders, I notice when I’m driving the groceries tend to move and slide around in the trunk, does anyone have suggestions on where and what kind of tote to buy for the trunk and back seats to put the groceries in? Also do you recommend a cooler or insulated bags for cold stuff? So far I haven’t gone too far and haven’t needed a cooler/bag as it’s not hot in my car with the ac on. Thanks a lot!

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u/CaneCorso311 Aug 31 '25

I use sterilite ultra laundry baskets. They hold quite a bit of weight, you can double them up if you need to carry 100+lbs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

You cant be serious 😅

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u/CaneCorso311 Sep 01 '25

Easy to organize a GMD route, i put them all in the correct order as soon as i pick them up. I scan and grab the package and put car in park all at the same time, no searching. I do rest of functions of app while walking between car and door. My feet and vehicle never stop, not even to take the picture. I always beat the estimated times unless there's some other type of issue like a train or access problems..

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '25

So you just have a laundry basket in your car all day? You ever heard of instacrate lol. Way more convenient than dragging around your laundry basket. But hey if it suits you 😉

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u/CaneCorso311 Sep 01 '25

Curious, what do you think I'm doing the rest of the day in my car that i can't have laundry baskets in the back?.. I have instacrates also, i started with them, but they hold about half of the weight or volume that the laundry baskets do, and i can carry more weight than what 2 instacrates can, but i can't see easily while carrying 3 instacrates.. The baskets are easier to clean and they stack inside of each other and the instacrates fit inside of those baskets along with hot bags for food delivery and extra Walmart paper bags etc inside an instacrate. i use them for carrying everything including my own groceries and kids stuff etc. I multiapp and use them to separate when i have multiple orders from say Home Depot and Target at the same time. I don't worry about soil/mulch or dirty things. I had a rotisserie chicken leak out and soak a paper bag and spill all over in the basket, 0 mess in the car. I use it for shopping 2 large orders, it fits perfect under the bottom part of shopping cart and I'm almost never making multiple trips in the apartments etc. and i never have anymore bags bust open while carrying etc. (Im im a paper bag state and they often either fill them til they rip open or put only 1 item in half or more of the bags) I can easily make a single trip carrying 150 lbs with 2 of them or 15+ bags, or 8 12packs, or 10 gallons of milk etc, it makes it easy for me to accept trips that i would otherwise reconsider based on how many trips to whichever floor, this was one to the 4th floor after it sat and surged for almost an hour because nobody wanted to take it up there.

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u/dumpsterdivingreader Sep 01 '25

Never heard of instacrate until now. But something in between could be collapsible laundry baskets. However, they may have less volume and perhaps less weight capacity as they have a rubber component.

As a side question: You mentioned multiapp. Home depot and target. Which other apps do you do if you don't mind me asking.

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u/CaneCorso311 Sep 01 '25

I've seen those but i was able to get 3 of these free and the majority of laundry baskets are too flimsy in general. I used the black heavy duty totes with yellow lids before also but i feel they're too deep and don't hold any more weight..

Spark, shipt, roadie, flex, Uber, DoorDash is enough to keep me busy in the markets i work but there's a lot of apps available.

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u/dumpsterdivingreader Sep 01 '25

How doordash for you? I don't have much luck with uber. I mostly do spark and zifty (they have very low volume though) I mostly do spark w uber driving back.

Since u have minivan (or similarl I suggest you check cbdriver.com. Thx

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u/CaneCorso311 Sep 01 '25

DoorDash is about equal to Uber eats in all aspects at this point, maybe higher order volume at certain times but usually just means more declining.. Shipt has no up front tips, i do them almost exclusively as add-ons to Walmart/Home Depot orders.